The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-04-09
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women who live in want while
they are boarding large sums of
money. Avarice is a repulsive
vice of the aged, but in the
young it is against nature. Yet,
if it is once planted in child's
character, it grows with incredi-
BILE rapldity and strength. A
young woman, the last scion OF
a respectable family, Lived n one
OF our inland towns, supporting
herself by sewing. She occu-
pied one bare chamber, in such
poverty es to pcrplex her friends,
who knew that she had twice in
herited large legacies. She be-
came i'll with an agonizing dis
ease, brought on, the physician
said, by lack of sufficient food,
and grew weaker, day by day,
until she could not leave her
bed. Her physician, knowing
that she had money hidden,
spoke frankly to her at last,
telling her that her life depended
on her taking tonics and rich,
nourishing food, which her poor
neighbors could not buy. I'll
you do not take this food you
will not live a week." he said.
The girl remained thoughtful
and quiet when he was gone,
After a few hours she bade hel
nurses bring a chest which was
in the room near to her bed SC
that she could reach it. The
key she kept under her pillow
AS one day after another passed,
she would occasionally finger
the key and look wistfully at the
chest; but she did not open it
On the sixth day she died. lr
the last struggle with death she
held out the key, motioning tC
her nurse to open the chest
But it was too late. During
all those days she had weighed
her gold against her life. The
money was the dearer Of the two
Though she knew she coulo
not carry it with her, she coulc
not bring herself to spend dol
lar of it. A still more horrible
example of the effect of avarict
was reported in the Fsenci
journals last winter. An ole
woman, living with her children
had possession of a sum les
than a hundred dollars. TT
force her to give it up the,
literally burned her alive. w,
all shuddeT at passion which Cal
so brutalize human beings. Yc
how many men are moved by i
under some other name. Her
, is a wealthy woman who fill
ever closet in her heusc will
costly china, at which she neve
looks; or a man who buys vas
tracts Of land which he neithe
cultivates nor sells. The sol
use of either money Or goods il
this world is to make some hvini
being wise; or better or happier
The man who hinders this pun
pose, to CRAFTY his love of hoard
ing, is a miSer, though he ma,
give himsclfsome more honor
able title.
The cave animals of Mort
/. America, according to Prof. A
s. Packard, comprise a total c
172 species of blind creatures
nearly all of which are mostl
white in color.
The double-turrct shi
Trafalgar. which is the larges
armor-clad that has ever bee
built at Portsmouth, England
is to be ready for launching i
September. She was only be
gun last January.
"A farmer near Waldror
Mo-, has a healthy four month
old pig that has two feet on eac
leg, and on each foot five toe
Such a breed of pigs would b
profitable in a community pal
tial to picked pigs feet.
Tho london Christia
World rightly says that 18th
promise to pay for a newspape
is neither more nor less sacre,
than a promise to pay for farm
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paid your subscription
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delights in calculations contrib
utes this: "lf the immorta